Thread by @ridicuvosity

I just want to say that this is a completely useless report.

Here's why.

doh.wa.gov/sites/default/…

1. Like all cases, it relies on being reported. This issue plagues all case numbers.

2. It requires both primary AND secondary infection being reported.

(Little side note -- you notice there that they admitted that many people may have had covid without being vaccinated and it's minor? Sure seems different from the OMGGGG YOU WILL DIEEEEEEEE story.)

3. Anecdotally, it seems like a lot of people who are reinfected have a vaccine in there somewhere. This would be a lovely report in which to try to quantify that. Alas, here is what the report has to say about percentage of reinfections of vaxed vs unvaxed.

4. Ooh scary numbers! Where is the comparison chart for vax breakthroughs? (That probably wouldn't look so good.) And to the point above--what percentage of those cases overlap?

5. Really? Do we *have* to get a plug in for vaxxes here? Doing that without actually demonstrating that severe illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths are different between vaxed and reinfected seems ..... unsciency.

6. And speaking of unsciency ... is it "waning immunity" or is it incomplete protection against a mutating virus? Because if you look at the actual chart, those little bars before Omicron seem a hell of a lot lower than the waning immunity of the vaxes.

7. And finally, the ultimate reason that this is a worthless report is that here is why it was created. I am *sure* that this was created to try and bolster people into vaxxing.